Cripplepunk - Blog Posts

i love when i see another cane user/ disabled person in public and we make that eye contact of solidarity

like yes!! you are like me!! i am like you!!

i NEED you to remember this: you are allowed to be angry at your doctors. you are allowed to be furious. you are allowed to be mad at your nurses and technicians and neurologists and psychiatrists and medical assistants. they are not god. they are human beings and they work in a system that wears them raw, and that is unfair, but it isn't an excuse to treat you badly. i'm not necessarily saying you should throw a brick through the window of their car, but you can, should, must be angry with them for ignoring you, demeaning you, dehumanizing you, dismissing you, acting like you're lying, talking only about your weight, failing to acknowledge you past your symptoms, etc etc etc. you are an equal to your doctor. you are a human being and so are they. do not treat them as beyond reproach. you are allowed to be angry at your doctors.

Teresa Margolles, Vaporization, 2002 — a room filled with disinfected water vapor from cleaning bodies in morgues in Mexico City — part of the exhibition Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, MOMA PS1, Queens

how it feels when you go to the doctor and they actually listen to you and your symptoms and the skilled doctor finds a bloodwork test and you find out your body isn't just crippled from physical injury, oh no.. It's also because your body is killing itself because it got confused /j

pots flareups are so weird because wtf do you mean my heart is going sicko mode sfter walking 10 feet???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY HEART RATE IS RISING WHILE SITTING DOWN???

if you didn’t realize, ableism is actually bigotry and systemic ableism and inaccessibility are really oppression and it’s not something disabled people brought on ourselves by having bodies&minds that you think are inferior and therefore not worth fighting for. disabled people’s lives and wellbeing matter. we don’t have to earn our worthiness by doing “enough” to deserve a good life. nobody does.

A little PSA to the numskulls at my school if you see me on the ramp or waiting near the ramp STOP WALKING ON THE RAMP YOU CAN USE THE STAIRS I CANT!!! I will f*cking run you over